No, not the cancer of Zionism. The normal kind.

Posted by: Ace at 01:40 PM | Comments (26)
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Why no, not at all. Sounds like a plan to me.

Okay... blogging ethical dilemma. On one hand, it's NSFW hardcore porn.

On the other hand, it's news -- sort of -- and it's "what's going on the internet," and, well, if I know about it, why shouldn't you know about it? You're big kids, you know whether or not you want to click or not.

So there's a link up at a site I have nothing at all to do with. The first click is safe, it's the second click -- the click once you get there -- that has a very, very big content warning on it. Every post on that site, in fact, contains a link that's very NSFW. That's why it's called "Too Hot For Blogging," morons.

You can wait 'till you get home to click. Or at least wait 'till you get to a public library.

Girls gone wild.

Something has seriously gone wrong in this culture. God knows I'm not a super-strict virtuecrat or anything, but a steady diet of MTV sex shows, Sex & the City, and the like now has many, verging on most, young girls pretty much behaving like gutterwhores.

Some will say stories like this, and the Texas high school cheerleader scandal, don't indicate anything more than the fact that the media is now giving these stories play. I.e., this has always been going on, now our sensationalist, 24-hour-cycle media is just telling us about it.

That's nonsense. This has never happened before.

But Why Blame MTV and Sex & the City? What About the Internet? I don't think the ubiquity of porn has much of an impact, because in order to sell this behavior, you have to sell it as cool, chic, hip, an attractive "lifestyle choice."

Internet porn, and porn in general, hardly does that, does it? Hell, I'm sickened by it half the time, and I'm nasty.

Nah, you need to accompany it with fabulous digs like on The Real World or a fabulous job like Carrie Bradshaw has.

Not As Bad As It Seems? Okay, obviously, she took the pics, but she didn't necessarily post them. From a link I can't link, because it's littered with porn ads:

The first story is that BeccaÂ’s cellphone memory stick got stolen and whoever discovered the photos uploaded them to the Internet. The other story is that her ex-boyfriend took the photos and uploaded them to the Internet in an act of revenge.

Well, that is a bit different. It's still pretty damn risky to allow yourself to be photographed like this, and, well, I guess it's pretty damn sleazy, but hell, what people do in their own bedrooms and all that.

The fact that this might have been the vengeance of a jilted cad makes it look a little less bad for Becca, I guess.

Still: Ten years ago? Virtually impossible to get a young girl to do this.

Now it seems more or less expected.

Dominic Dunne wrote an article about this. His conclusion that sex acts that just weren't even on the menu thirty years ago are now more or less commonplace even among younger teenagers.

That, of course, is partly due to porn, but porn can't sell itself as cool.

Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM | Comments (187)
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It's about time. The sonofabitch.

federal judge yesterday temporarily froze movement of O.J. Simpson's assets until he decides the fate of a bid by murder victim Ron Goldman's family to get the dough the ex-football star was paid for his failed "If I Did It" book and TV deal.
The Goldmans sued Simpson last month, alleging his pact with News Corp.'s ReganBooks and Fox network was a fraud.

They contend he unlawfully funneled his estimated $1 million paycheck to a dummy corporation to duck paying them and other creditors, including American Express.

Simpson owes a $33.5 million wrongful death judgment to the heirs of Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson because a civil jury found him responsible for their slashing deaths in 1994. He was acquitted of criminal murder charges.

In U.S. District Court yesterday, Judge Manuel Real ordered a court-enforced "stand-still" of assets controlled by Simpson and Lorraine Brooke Associates, the alleged "shell" company Simpson's lawyer set up to channel the tome-and-tube deal income.

"He can no longer move assets around. We think that is very significant," said Goldman lawyer Jonathan Polak.

Thanks to yls.

Posted by: Ace at 01:11 PM | Comments (12)
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Yeah. I wrote that headline to be as gay as humanly possible.

He texted her asking her to hang out, and she wrote back, "Why would I hang out with you?"

Apparently she finds him less than adequite.

Via Crosblog, who links a breakthrough study proving that women like having sex with masculine-looking tough guys, but, get this, believe that softer, flabbier, nebbishier, more feminine men make for better providers.

Truly we live in an age of miracles and wonders, science shining its beacon into the dark corners of the mysteries of human existence.

Posted by: Ace at 12:53 PM | Comments (22)
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He was just a little angry about Iraq.

Maybe he and Alec Baldwin could co-author a piece about the satisfying sting on your palm after you slap a bitch.

Thanks to spongeworthy.

Posted by: Ace at 12:40 PM | Comments (23)
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You may want to break any NYT embargo for this. If not, I'll quote a bit.

Nearby, a man collapsed, his body convulsing. Mr. Autrey and two women rushed to help, he said. The man, Cameron Hollopeter, 20, managed to get up, but then stumbled to the platform edge and fell to the tracks, between the two rails.

The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. “I had to make a split decision,” Mr. Autrey said.

So he made one, and leapt.

Mr. Autrey lay on Mr. Hollopeter, his heart pounding, pressing him down in a space roughly a foot deep. The trainÂ’s brakes screeched, but it could not stop in time.

Five cars rolled overhead before the train stopped, the cars passing inches from his head, smudging his blue knit cap with grease. Mr. Autrey heard onlookers’ screams. “We’re O.K. down here,” he yelled, “but I’ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father’s O.K.” He heard cries of wonder, and applause.

It's reassuring that many people, though not nearly all, have that unthinking instinct to put their own lives in danger to save another human's life.

The man who collapsed had a seizure. In a way, I think he's lucky to have had one. Surely he would not want to have been conscious through the terror of five subway cars thundering just above his head or, worse yet, being well-nigh smothered by a brown person.

I mean -- it's like pick your poison, right? Lady or the Tiger. Scylla or Charybdis. Rock or a hard place. Subway car or brown person.

A follow-up here, where the hero gets a hero's reception.

Posted by: Ace at 12:34 PM | Comments (33)
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Wood continues diagnosing the liberal distemper.

Anger at political adversaries, of course, is nothing new. Reflecting on the intensification of political anger in the last few years, some commentators have pointed to the extraordinary acrimony between partisans of Jefferson and Adams in the 1800 election as proof that the nation has seen worse. But that comparison misses something. Go back and read the vitriolic diatribes of 1800 and you will find numerous attacks on Jefferson as a would-be tyrant and a man of low morals; and numerous attacks on Adams as a scoundrel who would sell the nation back to the British. But you will nothing remotely like, “I hate Thomas Jefferson,” or “I hate John Adams.”

Why not? Americans in 1800 certainly knew what political anger was but they faced powerful restraints. George Washington, who was completing his second term, was a living reproof to those who couldnÂ’t control their anger. He was known to be a man of quick temper who, by dint of hard effort, smothered it. That was the ideal. Children were taught from a young age that they had to master their anger, and that to fail at this was to own a morally serious flaw. Politics, being inherently oppositional, is bound to test such a principle. The newspapers and pamphlets of 1800 are full of Jeremiads, hard-hitting satire, and libelous personal attacks, and the writers give the impression (usually behind the mask of a pseudonym) of enjoying the rollicking pleasure of their verbal extravagance.

But there it stops. As far as I can tell, the partisan writings of 1800 never venture into the logic of, “Listen to me because I am really, really angry,” or, “The extremity of my anger proves the righteousness of my cause,” or, “Behold my disdain! It is a thing of wonder.” Those are some of the ways to tell the difference between the traditional forms of political anger and New Anger in its political manifestations. New Anger is about flaunting one’s anger as a kind of credential. It is a way of asserting one’s authenticity and, according to its own cultural logic, moving from authenticity to authority. Its essential message is, “I am to be believed and reckoned with because I am angry.”

A lot of it is about Jonathan Chait's 2003 article announcing he "hate" George Bush, and how that represented a shift in the MSM's comfort level with its own seething anger. Before that, Wood argues, they felt the need to hide it beneath what he terms "the conventional civility." After that, more and more in the MSM (and public generally) began to view raw hatred as proof of one's essential righteousness.

Posted by: Ace at 12:21 PM | Comments (34)
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Parents deliberately screen embryos to make sure they have the same disabilities as themselves. Mostly a phenomenon among the deaf or those with dwarfism, groups that have created a rather militant identity politics regarding their disabilities.

They justify this by saying parents should be able to have kids just like themselves.

More defensible, but still very troubling, parents are using medical techniques to freeze their daughter's growth so that she remains a child forever. Now, she is severely mentally impaired and will never grow intellectually past the toddler stage. But while a hysterectomy might be a smart move later in life, is it necessary before age nine, when she doesn't leave her house? (Actually, she never leaves her bed.)

And -- they are artificially stunting her physical growth just to make it easier to move her?

Bizarre.

Thanks to K-Lo at NRO and yls, respectively.

Posted by: Ace at 12:01 PM | Comments (59)
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As a response to "Let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes," and the parody, "Lets put this saucer on the porch and see if the cat laps it up" via drolmorg, Feisty offers:

Let's sit our asses on the copy machine, spread 'em wide and see who gets fired.

Indeed. I think we all need to re-impactify those action-items to the bleeding edge of our mindspace. Let's shave this monkey's ass and paint it up like a Bulgarian hooker and see who shoves a haddock down our pants.*

* From Stuff Jefferson Said In Business Meetings, second ed., Wharton School of Business Press.

Posted by: Ace at 11:03 PM | Comments (267)
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Below the fold. It's nothing bit about a nobody chump who compounds his nobody status by writing obsessively about other nobodies. (Of course I include myself in that group of "other nobodies," but at least we other nobodies write about crap other than *blogs* all day.)

Update: Impressed by Tbogg's ability to obsessively, creepily write about nothing but other bloggers, I've decided to try to top him.

My new blog, AceBogg, does nothing but link, quote, and comment snidely upon posts made on this, my main blog.

So I think I've topped him-- for now. He writes about nothing but other blogs, but AceBogg writes about nothing but my own blog.

I've got the silly pictures he posts and everything.
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